How to get rid of a mattress in Pataskala, OH.

Companies that come to your home and carry the mattress out, so you need no vehicle. The prices below are starting prices unless stated — stairs, box springs and extra items add to them.

Most charities will not take a used mattress. These are the ones we checked, including the ones that say no.

• The Salvation Army (satruck.org): accepted-items list includes 'Mattresses' and beds; also says local ordinances and need vary by location and to call 1-800-SA-TRUCK to confirm what a local center accepts. Source
• Doesn’t take mattresses. Habitat for Humanity national ReStore guide: 'Mattresses and box springs are not accepted.' Source

Policies vary by branch. Call before you carry one over — we asked each of the big three directly: Goodwill, the Salvation Army and Habitat for Humanity.

What we established about this city in particular — including where it runs nothing of its own and residents have to look elsewhere.

• Pataskala's answer on trash is a single line and a logo. The city's Set Up Services page, which is where a new resident turns on water, sewer and the rest, lists one entry under the heading Trash Service: Local Waste Services, linked straight out to the company. The city publishes no rate, no service levels, no collection calendar, no bulk item rules and no mattress policy of its own; the Utilities page covers water and sewer billing at 740-964-6275 and says nothing about refuse, and the Public Service / Streets department lists pothole patching, snow removal, rights-of-way, mowing, storm sewers, signs and signals - no waste collection. The company's own residential page offers 35, 65 and 96 gallon trash carts and says only "Please see your communities individual Service Guidelines for more information"; no service guidelines page for Pataskala is published on its site. So a Pataskala resident with a mattress has one phone call to make and no published number to expect at the end of it. Source Not confirmed: No monthly rate, bulk item allowance, extra item charge, notice period, wrapping rule or set-out time is published by the City of Pataskala or by Local Waste Services for Pataskala. Whether a mattress is collected at all, and at what price, is not established. Not confirmed: Whether Local Waste Services holds an exclusive city contract today could not be confirmed: the city's own press release announcing the award is no longer reachable on the rebuilt city site, and the city's codified ordinances are not linked from any page of it and could not be located online. Not confirmed: Pataskala straddles the Licking-Franklin county line. Nothing on the city's site, and nothing on the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio's own communities page, establishes that any part of Pataskala is in the SWACO district; the city links the Licking County Health Department and no Franklin County body. SWACO's page says only that it "has 41 communities located in their solid waste management district" without naming them.
• What Pataskala does publish is the rule against letting the mattress sit. Its Good Neighbor Guidelines, the city's own plain-language summary of the offenses most often reported, state that "Accumulation of any sort of refuse on your property is prohibited", that "Dumping garbage or littering in any public street, park or public area is not allowed" with a fine for the offender, and that "Private property littering without owner's consent is not allowed." The city also draws the line on cleanup after a storm: "After a storm, the city will retrieve debris from public spaces & streets", with private property left to the owner - so the city's own crews come out for storm debris in the right-of-way and for nothing else a household puts out. Complaints go through the city's Report a Problem page; City Hall is at 621 W. Broad Street. Source Not confirmed: The guidelines state the prohibitions in summary form and cite no code section, and give no figure for the fine. Not confirmed: No set-out window, container rule or time limit for refuse left outside is published, so how long a mattress may sit at a Pataskala curb before it is an accumulation is not established.

• Primary names Harvard Avenue Transfer Station at 3227 Harvard Ave, Newburgh Heights OH 44105; district calls it Harvard Road at 3227 Harvard Road. Same number, city and operator support an identity candidate, but street suffix discrepancy retained. Source
• Hamilton municipal FAQ says transfer-station large-item intake Monday–Saturday. Existing Rumpke operator-locator staging record 07c7c0690194a830d775d57e lists Monday–Friday 8am–3:45pm at the same 1000 N Third Street address and phone 513-867-8661. This is an hours discrepancy, not grounds to merge unrelated branches. Source
• Ohio EPA Solid Waste Management District Locator (GIS app): select a county to see its Solid Waste Management District; the underlying layer covers all 88 counties. SWMDs are the local contact for recycling and disposal. Source
• Ohio EPA's "Where to Recycle" page names the three statewide tools it offers residents: the Ohio EPA Recycling Directory (a searchable directory of service providers who volunteered to be listed), the solid waste management district locator map, and the Ohio Materials Marketplace for businesses. It states that recycling and litter prevention activities are controlled locally through the county's solid waste management district, which "can help with information such as ... where to take hard to recycle items". Note the agency site now serves these pages under the /wps/portal/gov/epa/ path; the bare /divisions-and-offices/... URLs 404 when requested directly. Source
• The Ohio EPA Recycling Directory is hosted on RecycleSearch (Re-TRAC) and is searchable by free text or by pre-set material categories after setting a location. Its own text says results may include curbside recycling programs, drop-off recycling locations, reuse stores and other service providers, and that listing is not an endorsement. Its FAQ states the directory "is in the process of being populated" and that some areas of the state may have no information available, directing residents to their local solid waste management district instead. Listings are managed by Ohio EPA and the districts. Source
• No statewide mattress stewardship program or landfill ban found on Ohio EPA pages as of 2026-09-22; mattress disposal is handled by local governments and county solid waste management districts. The agency's own site search for "mattress" returns only 4 resources, none of them mattress-related (Revised Total Coliform Rule, Underground Injection Control, operator exam information and a Trauma Scene Clean-Up fact sheet). The Materials and Waste Management division pages cover solid waste, infectious waste, scrap tires and C&DD, with no mattress or bulky-item program. Source
• Mattress Recycling Council's Program States page names exactly four program states — California, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Oregon. Ohio is not among them, confirming there is no MRC-run mattress stewardship program or Bye Bye Mattress free drop-off network in Ohio. Source